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The Biotech Career Coach Podcast helps scientists and biotech professionals take control of their careers.
Hosted by Carina Clingman, PhD, a veteran recruiter in the biotech industry, the show turns the confusing parts of the job search into clear, practical steps. Carina has recruited for biotech and medical device companies, run outplacement for teams hit by layoffs, and coached scientists across the industry into the roles they wanted. She brings that recruiter's eye to every episode.
Some weeks are solo deep dives job search and career strategy. Others are chats with biotech leaders and scientists who share how they built their careers. Either way, you leave with something you can use this week.
This is for you if you are a scientist trying to break into industry, a biotech professional navigating a layoff, or someone ready for the next move and tired of guessing what recruiters actually want.
Want more than the podcast? Join the Biotech Career Coach Skool community, where Carina works on your resume, cover letter, and job search with you, plus tools built to get you hired. Start here: https://www.skool.com/biotech-career-coach/about
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- Build Your Own AI Job Search Engine with Claude · 34 min · Episódio 67If you are in the job market and wondering how to use AI for your job search, come along and build your own AI job search engine with me in a Claude project. Learn by doing is…
- Best AI for Resume and Cover Letter (Part 2): 24 More Models Tested · 36 min · Episódio 66What is the best AI for your resume and cover letter? This is the second run of my resume scoring model bake-off. I did two things this time. First, a catch-up run of 18 models…
- Best AI for Resume and Cover Letter (I Tested 6 Models Blind) · 40 min · Episódio 65What is the best AI for your resume and cover letter? I tested 6 AI models blind, one from each major model family plus an open weight model, to see which one tailors a resume to…
- How to Follow Up After a Job Interview and When to Stop · 19 min · Episódio 64Wondering how to follow up after a job interview when all you hear is silence? In this episode, I answer the questions I get most about following up after an interview, from my…
- PhD to Industry Advice From a Biotech Recruiter · 8 min · Episódio 63Can you go straight from PhD to industry? The answer is yes, but you need to learn to market yourself. If you have heard how hard the job market is and wonder whether you should…
- Your Job Search Is a Marketing Campaign for You · 23 min · Episódio 62Your job search is a marketing campaign, and you are the product. In this episode, biotech career coach Carina Clingman shows you how to build a resume and cover letter that get…
- From Pipettes to Python: How to Break Into Computational Biology · 44 min · Episódio 61Most bench scientists think breaking into computational biology means going back to school. Dean Lee proves otherwise. Dean went from neuroscience PhD student at Harvard to…
- AI Agents vs Skills vs Automations: What Every Bench Scientist Needs to Know · 42 min · Episódio 60AI agents, skills, and automations. You keep hearing these terms, but nobody has clearly explained what they mean for someone actually working in biotech. In this episode, Carina…
- Win Over Every Interviewer (Even the Skeptics) · 48 min · Episódio 59Are you walking into biotech panel interviews and talking to every person the same way? That approach can cost you the offer, even if your science is solid. In this episode…
- How Bench Scientists Are Getting Ahead With AI · 47 min · Episódio 58You keep hearing about AI, but nobody is telling you how it actually fits into a biotech career or a job search. That changes today. In this episode, Carina sits down with…
- How Versatility Made Her the Scientist Every Team Wants | with Heer Shah, Gene Therapy Scientist · 25 min · Episódio 57Are you holding yourself back from biotech roles because you don't check every box on the job description? You're not alone, and it's costing you opportunities. In this career…
- Presentation Skills Can Make or Break Your Career · 49 min · Episódio 56Your technical skills might be perfect, but if you can't present them clearly, you won't get the job. Most scientists treat presentations like data dumps, and it costs them…
- Quick Momentum For Your 2026 Biotech Career Goals · 10 min · Episódio 55January brings fresh biotech hiring budgets, energized hiring managers, and real momentum after a tough 2025. If you've been waiting for the right time to level up your biotech…
- LinkedIn Networking for Biotech: Give First to Get Better Results · 12 min · Episódio 54Networking in biotech doesn’t have to feel awkward or transactional. In this episode, Carina shares how giving first is the simplest way to build authentic biotech networking on…
- I Challenge You: Build your Biotech Network in 28 days · 11 min · Episódio 53Biotech networking doesn’t have to feel random. In this video, I’ll walk you through a 28-day biotech networking challenge you can actually stick to. Perfect for biotech job…
- Six Second Resume Test: Make Your Biotech Resume Survive the Scan · 9 min · Episódio 52Does your biotech resume pass the six-second test? That's all the time most recruiters spend deciding who gets rejected and who deserves more attention. In this episode, we show…
- How to Use AI to Improve Resumes, Cover Letters, and Networking · 16 min · Episódio 51AI can completely change how you write resumes, cover letters, and networking messages for biotech roles, but only if you use it properly. In this episode, I show biotech…
- The LinkedIn Setting Turning Your Profile Into A Mess For Recruiters · 7 min · Episódio 50Is a hidden LinkedIn setting making you look disorganized to recruiters? In this episode, I show you the LinkedIn setting that quietly pulls messy CV text into your profile in…
- Networking That Works (Without Being Awkward or Cringe) · 21 min · Episódio 49Most biotech professionals dread networking because it feels like cold calling, pushy, or inauthentic. If you've ever avoided reaching out because you didn't want to seem…
- How To Fix Your Boring LinkedIn Headline · 11 min · Episódio 48Your LinkedIn headline is one of the most valuable pieces of real estate on your profile, but most biotechnology professionals are wasting it. In this episode, Biotech Career…
